twilit

adj

twilit

adj

UK /ˈtwaɪlɪt/

1

Illuminated by or as if by twilight; half-lit.

  • He was like someone lying in twilit, formless, preëxistence, and stretching out his hands lovingly towards many-coloured, many-sounding life.1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables — Will o’ the Mill, page 79:
  • The effect of the closing inside the booths was to turn the line of concessions into a twilit tunnel.1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 10, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, published 2006, page 241:

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